POP is collaborating with feminist theatre company Scary Little Girls and writer and performer Dr Naomi Paxton + five other very talented actors to showcase POP research at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
Together we are making a 10min family show and an adult cabaret version to be performed everyday. See here for more detail.
The shows are called POCKETS OF POWER.
There are tens of thousands of pocket inventions in the patent archives.
Pockets have proved problematic for people throughout time and catalysed a remarkable volume of inventive energy.
Pockets, and moreover their absence (even in contemporary women’s clothes), have attracted the attention of many feminist scholars and annoyed many a clothes wearer over the years.
They are fascinating practical and socio-political objects. Because women have long been regarded AS property, pockets provide a radical way for them to have, own and carry property.
We have been researching them as sites of socio-political power – as acts of rebellion, resistance, and subversion.
We have made a collection of costume of secret pockets in ALL kinds of places – such as socks, belts, cuffs, gloves, skirts, trousers, scarves, hats and more!
This is the first of several performances of this research. We hope to be part of this years Being Human Festival in November and performing the work in a central London location.
